Re: $Event::DIED isn't doing what I expected

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:21:25PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> <man>
> If you do not want to continue looping after an error, you can do
> something like this:
> 
>  $Event::DIED = sub { die &Event::verbose_exception_handler(@_) };
> </man>
> 
> I did that and I get this trap message
> 
> Event: trapped error: <my_error/>
>   in Event::timer=HASH(0x85b52dc) --
>   [...snip...]
> Event: '?? foo:97' died and then $Event::DIED died with: 1 at foo line 86.
> 
> but my loop() seems to keep going.  What am I missing :(

Oops!  i'll correct the documentation.  Does this do what you want?

  $Event::DIED = sub {
     Event::unloop();
     warn &Event::verbose_exception_handler(@_);
  };

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